RIN-OCLC study to identify researchers’ needs - October 12, 2009
The Research Information Network (RIN) and OCLC Research are undertaking a comparative study to investigate information-related support services for researchers in the UK and the US. This collaborative research project will be composed of two separate, but linked, analyses. It will examine information-related support services throughout… Read More
John Wiley & Sons partners with Scrivener Publishing - October 12, 2009
Publisher John Wiley & Sons, Inc., US, has announced a new partnership with Scrivener Publishing, a provider of book and chapter length material for industry practitioners and academic researchers in the technical applied sciences. Under the deal, Wiley and Scrivener will co-develop a line of books… Read More
Publishing Technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s publishing platform with pub2web tech - October 12, 2009
Publishing-specific software solutions provider Publishing Technology plc, UK, has announced a partnership with content solutions provider Sunmedia, Japan. Under the deal, Publishing Technology will deploy its pub2web technology to rebuild Sunmedia’s online publishing platform as a robust new research service. Sunmedia's current platform supplies Japanese researchers… Read More
Cold Spring Publishing set to launch new Oncology journal - October 12, 2009
Medical publishing company Cold Spring Publishing, LLC, US, has announced the launch of a clinical journal - The Journal of the Advanced Practitioner in Oncology. The journal is targeted at nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, advanced practice nurses, and physician's assistants who practice in the field… Read More
Latest edition of Blogspeak now online - October 12, 2009
The latest edition of blogspeak is now online. Featured are Jon Gibs (Social Media: The Next Great Gateway for Content Discovery?); Kent Anderson (Is It Print That’s Dying? Or Mass Media?); Jenny Delasalle (Theses and early draft deposit in repositories: is that publication?); and Michael Clarke (Been Avoiding Social Media?… Read More
‘Big deals’ overtaking single subscriptions, says ALPSP survey of librarians - October 9, 2009
The Association of Learning and Professional Society Publishing (ALPSP) has announced that, according to its recent survey of librarians, the average number of journals being made available by libraries more than doubled between 2000 and 2009. However, librarians are predicting that they will provide access to… Read More
